Very soon, on February 9 of this year, the residents of Kaliningrad will once again have the opportunity to become participants in the stunning holiday - Day of the Long Sausage. The event will be held at the Museum of the World Ocean - this is where all the guests of the holiday will get a chance not only to have fun from the heart, but also to taste the sausage, the recipe that has been kept in the city since the Middle Ages.

“For the first time, the inhabitants of our city, which was formerly called Königsberg, had such a holiday back in 1520! - Kaliningrad local historians proudly say. - The record of that first holiday was impressive - the ancient butchers managed to make sausage 41 elbows long (a little over 45 meters). Music rattled in the city, and medieval cooks carried huge sausage to the accompaniment of trumpets and drums through the whole of Koenigsberg. ”

Since then, city chefs have tried their best to break the records of previous years. And by 1601, the length of the festive sausage reached more than a thousand cubits (about one kilometer). To create such a sausage, three experienced chefs using 90 apprentices used more than 80 pork hams and seven kilograms of black pepper in the preparation.

In the 21st century, the tradition of making the longest sausage was forgotten. But seven years ago, employees of the Museum of the World Ocean remembered the wonderful annual holiday and decided to resume its holding.

“In 2018, the length of the festive sausage reached three meters,” the festival organizers say. - In girth, the product reached 90 cm, and the sausage weight exceeded 130 kilograms. They prepared last year's holiday sausage a little less than two days. "